"Expecting" the Unexpected!

"Wow" has to be the most understated expression of my life but it was all I could say for quite some time. I was planning to simply announce that Carol and I are pregnant (Carol more so than me) after our first ultrasound so I could have some pictures to post, but then "wow" happened!

TWINS!

We we're totally unprepared for the news and now that the initial surprise/shock has ebbed a bit (a night with no sleep will do that to a person) we are overwhelmingly excited and happy with the news! I can't believe how lucky we are.

Again: "WOW"!!!!!!

Yet another Mygrain

This Weaks Mygrain:

Resurrection of the Napkin?

I'm amazed how much my drawings change over time.

Back in '97 my friend Nick Cross and myself came up with a cartoon series called "Angora Napkin". Back then we were pretty much newbies in animation with a background in illustration. Nick took to animation like a duck to water and put all to shame on a daily basis as he continues to do to this day.

Meanwhile I pursued a life in comics. The girls from Angora Napkin have had some continued life in the back pages of Chiaroscuro and last year I pitched the idea of a mini series/graphic novel to SLG and got some tentative interest.

So over the weekend I dug out all the binders full of work Nick and I did on the cartoon series and look them over. There was a point where Nick's style took off in what I thought at the time was WAY out there... I remember telling him that I thought he was deviating too much from the look we defined. Was I ever wrong! I look at his stuff now and wonder why I'm so slow to pick up on things.

Over time my natural drawing style has become much looser, thanks in part to mucking around with a brush pen and doing those odd little Mygrain comics. Having pretty much nailed down a script to the Angora Napkin comic, I'm pretty excited to play around with these characters in a fresh way. I'll post some sketches and plot the developments on this project as they happen.

In the meantime, enjoy this Peanuts strip.

The Mygrain Returns

Because I'm some sort of sadist I've decided to add to the pile of "Things I Don't Have Time For" a return of the weakly Mygrain comics. Mostly because I need to do something creative in the hope that my brain hasn't flatlined all together. If you got a kick out of this, check out some of the others on my old web site by clicking HERE.

The plan is to add new comics here every week (but don't count on it). Enjoy!

Go Shorty, It's Your Birthday.

APE show ends today!

No, not the show in San Francisco but an art show going on at the Atlantic Technology Center in P.E.I.

The original pages for the Angora Napkin short comic "Zesty Pineapple Sprig" (Chiaroscuro #6) and "Feedbak" from the February 2006 issue of The Buzz are on display, as well as one of my few oil paintings (*not pictured. The old man is a painting of William S. Burroughs I did back in '98).

Today is the last day of the exhibit, but it may become an annual event. For more info on APE, click here.